Improving the prognostic impact of computed tomography coronary angiography with physical activity, exercise and fitness

Over the past decades, Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography (CCTA) has significantly amplified its role in the evaluation of patients with chest pain. From the initial studies demonstrating good correlation with invasive coronary angiography with high specificity and even higher sensitivity and negative predictive value, CCTA evolved to phenotyping coronary atherosclerosis by evaluating the severity of coronary stenosis, plaque composition, extent and burden, thus providing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk stratification over traditional CVD risk factors.
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research